MK Stowaways for Underground Revival
On 19 February 1968, eight days after departing Kenya, the vessel “Clan Ross” reached Cape Town, and when it docked, Bifana Matthews Ngcobo asked Walter Zulu to change £57 into South African currency. Zulu complied and was paid R30 in return. About two weeks prior to this incident, in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Ngcobo approached Zulu, and said he was very hungry. Zulu, who was a seaman, took Ngcobo to the galley of the “Clan Ross” on which he was a crewman, and they both had something to eat. On the following day, Zulu and Ngcobo met again and Ngcobo was told to go to Mombasa to meet the ship there.
In Mombasa, Kenya, Matthews Ngcobo and Walter Zulu met again and Ngcobo took Zulu to meet Amos Lengisi, whom he introduced as a friend who wanted to join them on the trip to South Africa. A few days later, Lengisi and Ngcobo arrived at the “Clan Ross” and Zulu locked them in the cabin until the ship was at sea. Once the ship was on its way, Zulu transferred the two to the engine room until it docked in Cape Town. Ngcobo then told Zulu that when he returned to Dar es Salaam he should phone Mr Piliso and inform him that the journey was pleasant and that Ngcobo arrived safely at home. Ngcobo bought a train ticked to Durban and Amos Lengisi boarded a taxi to De Aar.
In a subsequent trip from Mombasa, Walter Zulu smuggled in Themba Linus Dlamini, whose brother, Isaac, linked him up with Dorothy Nyembe. Matthews Ngcobo, Linus Dlam
